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Post by nl » Fri, Dec 22, 2017, 8:57 PM UTC

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Lee Atwater, former chairman of the Republican National Party ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater ) literally said that the key to republicans winning in the south was couching racism in more palatable euphemisms. https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-inf... North Carolina's GOP was sanctioned by the Supreme Court for actively attempting to disenfranchise black people: https://www.theatlant…

> Lee Atwater, former chairman of the Republican National Party ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater ) literally said that the key to republicans winning in the south was couching racism in more palatable euphemisms. What he literally said was this: > You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, st…

Post by nl » Fri, Dec 22, 2017, 10:26 PM UTC

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It's a strategy for destroying racism by abstracting it into non-existence. Do you really believe that? Not many do - most think it is a deliberately racist strategy, and most see that quote as an explanation of it.

> Do you really believe that? Not many do - most think it is a deliberately racist strategy, and most see that quote as an explanation of it. How is it racist to remove the racist component from a policy? It's literally the exact opposite of that. That's what optimizing to reduce the amount of racism looks like -- you find things that are partly desired and partly racist and replace them with something to achieve the…

Post by nl » Sat, Dec 23, 2017, 2:22 AM UTC

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Wow. I genuinely never realised people could think this. You understand that they didn’t remove the racist component at all, right? He literally explained how to implement racist policies without making it explicit. Like you said: replace them with something to achieve the desired objective without discriminating based on race. But note that the desired objective is to discriminate on race , and it is only an attempt…

> But note that the desired objective is to discriminate on race , and it is only an attempt to hide the appearance. No it isn't, that's the whole point. Most people have no real interest in discriminating based on race. They just want their tax dollars to go to their own interests instead of to somebody else. They don't care if the somebody else is black, white or polka dot. They want to pay $5000 in taxes and get b…